1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462187503321

Autore

Atkinson Robert D.

Titolo

Innovation economics : the race for global advantage / / Robert D. Atkinson and Stephen J. Ezell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-283-57132-3

9786613883773

0-300-18911-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 431 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

338.0640973

Soggetti

Technological innovations - Economic aspects - United States

Technological innovations - Economic aspects

Diffusion of innovations - United States

Industrial policy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-415) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 The Race for Global Innovation Advantage -- 2 Explaining U.S. Economic Decline -- 3 Learning from the Wrong Master -- 4 Why Do So Many Refuse to See U.S. Structural Economic Decline? -- 5 What Are Innovation and Innovation Policy and Why Are They Important? -- 6 Crafting Innovation Policy to Win the Race -- 7 Cheating as a Way to Win the Race -- 8 Winning the Race for Innovation Advantage with the Eight "I's" of Innovation Policy -- 9 Why Don't We Have More Innovation and Innovation Policy? -- 10 Can Nations Overcome the Barriers to Innovation? -- 11 Creating a Robust Global Innovation System.

Sommario/riassunto

"Why America no longer leads the world in innovation, why we should be concerned, and what must be done about it This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What does this portend? Robert Atkinson and Stephen Ezell, widely respected



economic thinkers, report on profound new forces that are shaping the global economy--forces that favor nations with innovation-based economies and innovation policies. Unless the United States enacts public policies to reflect this reality, Americans face the relatively lower standards of living associated with a noncompetitive national economy. The authors explore how a weak innovation economy not only contributed to the Great Recession but is delaying America's recovery from it and how innovation in the United States compares with that in other developed and developing nations. Atkinson and Ezell then lay out a detailed, pragmatic road map for America to regain its global innovation advantage by 2020, as well as maximize the global supply of innovation and promote sustainable globalization."--Provided by publisher.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910829874903321

Titolo

Construction stakeholder management [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ezekiel Chinyio, Paul Olomolaiye

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; ; Ames, Iowa, : Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

1-282-36220-8

9786612362200

1-4443-1534-X

1-4443-1535-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChinyioE (Ezekiel)

OlomolaiyePaul O

Disciplina

350.0073

624.0688

Soggetti

Strategic planning

Organization

Customer relations

Consumer satisfaction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introducing Stakeholder Management; 2 Stakeholder Management: Theoretical Perspectives and Implications; 3 A Historical Overview of Stakeholder Management; 4 Uptake, Applications and Best Practices in Stakeholder Management; 5 The Contextual Approach to Stakeholder Management in Finland; 6 Risk and Construction Stakeholder Management; 7 Mapping Stakeholders; 8 Strategies and Tactics for Managing Construction Stakeholders; 9 Constructing Negotiations: Bargaining, Learning and Fighting; 10 Communication in Stakeholder Management

11 Culture and Leadership in Stakeholder Management12 Impact of Procurement on Stakeholder Management; 13 Stakeholder Management in the Hong Kong Construction Industry; 14 A Mental Modeling Approach to Study Decision-Making in Dynamic Task Environments; 15 Stakeholder Management - The Gains and Pains; 16 Benefiting from Stakeholder Management - Electronic Archiving; 17 Managing Stakeholders Conflicts; 18 Environmental Stakeholder Management; 19 Using Change Management to Support Stakeholder Management; 20 Case Studies; 21 Conclusion; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R

ST; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

This book captures best practice in construction stakeholder management using a range of international case studies. It demonstrates stakeholder mapping, presents the power/interest matrix and analyses a model for the timely engagement of stakeholders. The increased use of partnering and other relational forms of contracting have underlined the need for project participants to work together and also to be aware of all those who can affect or be affected by a project and its associated developments. Stakeholder management enables them to see this wider picture and provides guidance for managi